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| Personality changes in Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | E Talassi, G Cipriani, A Bianchetti |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 11, no 5, September 2007 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, September 2007 |
| Pages | pp 526-531 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Personality ; Personality disorders ; Evaluation ; Italy. |
| Annotation | Assessment of personality changes in patients with dementia has received little systematic investigation, although caregivers report personality modifications in every phase of dementia. A group of 52 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) vs a group of 15 control subjects were selected for these personality tests before and after the manifestation of dementia using the Italian version of Brooks and McKinaly's Personality Inventory (PI). After the onset of AD, a significant shift from positive to negative characteristics in PI was observed in 12 of 18 bipolar pairs of adjectives constituting the instrument, and total mean PI score decreased significantly, indicating a worsening of personality profile. In the control group, however, evaluated before and after retirement, personality traits and total mean PI scores did not show a significant change. The association of personality traits and total PI score with demographic, cognitive and functional characteristics of AD patients was calculated. Personality changes have been depicted to be influenced by severity of cognitive, functional and behavioural complaints rather than age, sex, education and disease duration. This first application of the Italian version of PI confirmed that personality modifications make a consistent aspect of the phenomenology of AD, although in the negative direction. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080327206 A |
| Classmark | EA: DK: EK: 4C: 76V |
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